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Tech

October Becomes Worst Month for Crypto Hacks With Two Weeks to Go

Over $718 million has been stolen from DeFi protocols across eleven different hacks this month so far, per research firm Chainalysis.

Revolut's customer data was compromised by a phishing attack. (Shutterstock)

Finance

Crypto Sleuth ZachXBT’s Efforts Lead to Prosecution of Alleged Bored Ape NFT Scammers

The phishing scam, where people were defrauded out of millions of dollars worth of NFTs, was brought to light in August.

(Bored Ape Yacht Club, modified by CoinDesk)

Videos

Market Manipulation Leads to $100M Exploit on Solana DeFi Exchange Mango

A rogue crypto trader utilized millions of dollars to manipulate the prices of Mango’s MNGO tokens on the namesake Solana-based decentralized exchange (DEX) to eventually drain over $116 million in liquidity from the platform. "The Hash" panel discusses the details of the hack and revelations about the vulnerabilities of DeFi.

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Finance

BNB Smart Chain to Perform Hard Fork as Fix for $100M Exploit

The "temporary urgent patch" release will take occur at around 08:00 UTC on Oct. 12.

The Cardano hard fork is expected on Sept. 22. (Yuri_Arcurs/E+/Getty Images)

Finance

DeFi Protocol Temple DAO Struck by $2.3M Exploit

The hack equates to around 4% of Temple DAO's total value locked (TVL).

(Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)

Finance

Binance Exec: BNB Smart Chain Hack Could Have Been Worse if Validators Hadn’t ‘Sprung Into Action’

Patrick Hillmann, chief communications officer at crypto exchange Binance, joined “First Mover” to discuss last week’s $100 million exploit and how validators prevented the worst-case scenario.

Patrick Hillmann, chief communications officer (Binance)

Finance

Transit Finance Hacker Returns $2.74M to Victims, Sends $686K to Tornado Cash

Transit Finance hacker has sent $686,000 worth of BNB tokens to the sanctioned Tornado Cash protocol.

La billetera de criptomonedas BitKeep sufrió un hackeo de US$1 millón de tokens. (Unsplash)

Policy

EU's ESMA Raises Alarm Bells Over Growing Crypto Use as It Prepares for New Powers

The European Securities and Markets Authority is worried about consumer rip-offs as well as novel risks like hacks and consensus manipulation

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Finance

Transit Swap Exploiter Returns Large Chunk of $28.9M Hack

Security firms help locate the hacker's IP address following the $28.9 million exploit.

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